Author Archives: Schutz

Where’s the chalk when you need to throw it? I’m currently unable to get a moment’s peace with the shouting of striking teachers filling the streets of quiet Melbourne town… And they used to tell us WE were noisy when … Continue reading →

You have to wonder about the source and basis and quality of this article in Times Online “That Martin Luther? He wasn’t so bad, says Pope”. (See also the comment here that deals with Muslims, Galileo and Luther). Not that … Continue reading →

In the latest edition of First Things, Fr Richard John Neuhaus draws attention to a book called Ecumenism and Philosophy by Father Charles Morerod of the Angelicum in Rome (Sapientia Press). He describes it as follows: Father Morerod persuasively argues … Continue reading →

Catholics might not know the expression “Church Growth”, but the phenomenon of what I call “professionalisation” in the the paradigms of the Church are not unknown. A good example is the rush for “mission statements”. Fr Richard John Neuhaus reports … Continue reading →

Not at my kid’s school they’re not.

One hopes that this will settle the matter once and for all. Sometimes there really is a final word.

Nobody expects the Lutheran Inquisition, and certainly I was surprised to find it buried deep among the string of 59 comments on the end of a previous blog, but here is Pastor Weedon’s list of “fess up” questions for me. … Continue reading →

There is a telling interview by Stephen Crittenden on the Religion Report with Rabbi David Rosen about the Good Friday prayers. I have already refered readers of this blog to Rabbi Jacob Neusner’s comments in his interview with Zenit. In … Continue reading →

Here’s some more proof, from his recent encyclical “Spe Salvi”: In him who was crucified, the denial of false images of God is taken to an extreme. God now reveals his true face in the figure of the sufferer who … Continue reading →

Some time ago, Pastor Weedon asked me to outline what articles of faith in the Book of Concord I don’t have any truck with any more. Off the top of my head, I said their rejection of the Petrine Ministry … Continue reading →